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An interstellar civilization, one that controls several planets, is nearly impossible for nature to eradicate.
Extinction scale meteor? Let's watch it from our ******* MOON BASE!
Pandemic? Shut down the space ports and synthesize a cure using the ******** of natural resources spread across federation space.
******* Supernova? Oh I'm quacking in my waste recycling vacuum suit! Looks like we have to start terraforming again!
Space exploration is a necessary step towards becoming that civilization.
The phase in our species progression where the only threat we'll have is ourselves.
And the Covenant.

Not yet. At least, not on a planned, planetwide scale. Technically, every change we make in our environment from large-scale deforestation to gardening is a kind of terraforming. However, something like making Mars hospitable for human life? Not in this century, I think. If someone thinks we're closer to it than that though, I'd love to hear it. Every step closer counts.

if there was an extinction scale meteor that destroyed earth and we were on the moon, then we'd be ****** too, smart one. think about it. the moon orbits the earth. the earth orbits around the suns. earth is obliterated. what the **** happens to the moon?!

Actually the moon could theoretically orbit the Sun, or get pulled into the gravitational pull of another planet, depending on the circumstances of the Earth's destruction and it's location relative to, say, Mars. But that's irrelevant anyway, because Earth is the only place in our solar system with the resources needed to support human life. If we built a base on the moon then we'd constantly have to keep it alive with things we get from Earth, like water and oxygen.

As I finished typing all that I realized I ended up reinforcing your comment. So I shall thumb you up.

A meteor that could wipe out all terrestrial life on Earth would not destroy the planet. It wouldn't even need to be the size of moon to accomplish that. It would just need to be big enough to kick up a cloud of dust that blots out the sun. Three weeks in, no more plants. No plants, no food for herbivores. No food for herbivores, carnivores start killing eachother off for food. After they're dead, the fungi and bacteria starve as well, killing more forms of life on this planet, except those that live in the deep ocean where there is no sunlight. Ever.

Now, unless that meteor hit the moon first, then the Earth, the moon base would be totally fine, as Earth would still be there.

This is exactly why we haven't put a MAN on Mars. The "poor" people in this country want every cent spent on them so that they don't have to get out and get a job and pay taxes. My god, it is mankind's DESTINY to explore the stars and we can't even get a man out of our ******* gravity well because everyone wants the government to spend money on them. All the politicians have pet projects they don't have enough money for so they take money from the tax payers. All these ghetto assholes want their big ******* rims and their big screen tvs and buggies full of junk food. Here in my house we live well over the "poverty line" and we have a tv from the Nineties in our living room and we don't have a fridge full of **** to snack on all god damn day, yet we still have to pay for these lazy ***** to get fat off government subsidies! These people aren't ******* poor! I say get rid of ******* welfare and put all that money into NASA so we can actually advance our species like we should have been since we landed on the ******* Moon!
Anyway, sorry about the rant. ******* useless assholes like this just infuriate me.

Well, for one, the lawmakers who passed it didn't even have enough time to read through the whole thing. According to Nancy Pelosi, "We have to pass it before we can find out what is in it," like its a ******* xmas present or something. The you have the issues of cost, which it is going to cost billions more than they said it would, as if we aren't in enough debt. In the end, its going to force everyone onto a single payer system with ****** health care. That's only the tip of the iceberg. Another thing, as a side note, the bill transferred control of FAFSA (which pretty much controls every student loan that is out there) over to the federal government. What that has to do with healthcare is ******* beyond me. There is tons more wrong with this bill that it would take hours for me to gather the info and explain it all.

people are pretty dumb then for saying, "yah free health care." dumb *****. like the government is gonna pull that free health care right out of their ass. how has no one done anything about it yet? the U.S. is gonna die, i swear.

Just like the saying goes, "There's no such thing as a free lunch." someone is footing the bill somewhere down the line. Worst of all, the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional, and the vote hinged on a so called "conservative" justice (Justice Roberts) and he voted for the damn thing. >:(

should we just kill ourselves now? better yet let's just go do whatever at this point since the country is pretty much downhill right now. not like it matters anyway. i'm being serious btw. like seriously. what's the point of doing anything anymore. some dumbass gets his dumbass way and everyone dies because of that stupid ****. let's just go rob a bank already. damn

Oh no, never give up. That is exactly what they want you to do, to roll over and let them kick you. And you don't want to go about committing crimes just because it seems hopeless. By doing so you would yield the moral high ground. No, there WILL be an America after all this. What ever that future America is is up to us to decide. So never give up.

Haha, yeah well people have always been stupid. The problem is that we are now electing too many of them into office. But I think everything just hinges on this next election. I can wait another 3 months.

Actually I'm not religious at all. But personally, I know a great deal of religious people who are much more intelligent than you. And they respect life enough not to go about telling people to die on the internet. Dumkopf.

I have now read through your complete thread, and I have to say, you are one of the most intelligent and down to earth people I have seen before. I started reading simply because an opinion actually go thumbed up on here, and I can see why. Thank you for not being like the majority of our country and actually understanding how things work. I know how ****** our country is and it's refreshing to see someone so realistically minded.
The only thing I have left to say, VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!!!

Oh, stop it you. I'm actually quite use to getting tons of red thumbs for my opinions so this is quite a surprise. Oh, and we have a wonderful country, we're just in a really ****** situation and we have a really ****** government trying to fix it.

I would agree with that. It is time for us to do what our constitution says we are entitled to. When the government it broken it is our job to fix it. Why haven't we yet? Oh, because the second we try to we will be considered terrorists and be arrested for trying to do what the constitution allows us to. The new terrorism laws will stop us from ever being able to. They would stop us from even getting a trial in many cases and impede on our direct rights. How can our government put laws in place that completely take away what our country was founded on?

Well, we'll see how this next election turns out. Personally I think Romney will do a good job (He damn well better do a good job). He wasn't my first choice, but he is a good business man, and that is what our economy needs. If Obama wins? Well, "The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it." A little quote from Cicero that I found. :)

Great quote. At this point, I think Romney is just the lesser of two evils. However, I feel like no matter who makes it into office something more drastic will have to happen. It isn't something I necessarily want to see, but I don't see our government getting fixed without a bit of revolution. We have spent the past 10, nearly 11 years revolutionizing countries from the middle east, yet we are not doing anything here. We need to fix what is happening and worry about our own country. I agree that things like welfare need to leave, but we also need a complete overhaul of our government. It is time for this "wonderful" country of ours to return to its former glory and reclaim the ideals we were founded on, not the ideals that have been manipulated to what they are today. It is time for change and the time for action is coming ever nearer to us. It is time for something to happen. I will give anyone a chance. Since Obama has blown that chance, I will give Romney a chance this next time around, assuming he manages to beat out el presidente, which doesn't seem too far fetched. However, if he cannot do anything to fix it, I feel like we need to organize as a country and actually do something about it. We need to make our country somewhere that is seen as a refuge and wonderful place to live, not just for our citizens, but in the eyes of the world also. We have spent too many years being hated by the world, it is time to become a glorious nation again. We have gone from truly great leaders to the scum we call the government today. It just isn't right. I don't want to live in a country that is consistently going down the toilet and waving to the rest of the world on the way down. It is as if we don't even care enough to fix our country. The time for change is among us.

word man, doesnt matter if youre foreign or not, everyone has a chance to do well in America, it's your own responsibility to figure out life. These poor fags want other people to pay for their mistakes, i say **** em, if i turn out to be poor for some reason im not going to ask for hand outs from successful people, like it's my right to have their money, no, ****** man up, stop having kids, stop buying so many drugs, get a job and be a part of society. Like ****** seriously, it took me 3 weeks to find a job, it's not as hard as these lazy ass holes say it is, you just have to put forth the effort

Personally, I believe in helping real poor people who are down on their luck through charity. But giving them money through the government is just subsidizing their poverty and keeping them in that state (which isn't real poverty). and what makes it worse is that Obama recently did away with a bill passed in the 90's that made people on welfare look for a job (pretend to anyway) in order to continue getting their welfare checks. They don't even have to pretend anymore.

The politicians are happy to oblige those people because they will keep being reelcted by those people. And thus you have a system where the same politicians keep holding office and the lazy bums on their couches keep getting their checks. We have more people on food stamps than ever before and it's no accident.

I believe Ben Franklin said it best when he said “I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”

We are doing a disservice to the poor by making it easy to be poor. We need to stop giving them fish and give them fishing poles.

Perhaps, but Rome still lasted 500 years after the fall of the Republic. Perhaps, even if our Republic falls, another generation may rekindle the flame, so to speak. In fact, Emperor Marcus Aurelius wanted to restore the republic and may very well have if he hadn't had died in Germania.

I read prothean as promethean, obvious sign that its late and I should get off, but ill stand the cast of the di, that way people can actually see the full story because im always left wondering what the deleted comment was when someone deletes one

It's pointless to compare any of these. They are not related at all; I know most people take it as a joke, but some Americans seriously compare international sporting events with space exploration.

If you wanna compare, take the Salt Lake ****** Olympics (2002) with the London Olympics (2012) In which case LONDON 2012 is far better. Or compare NASA with the UKSA. In which case NASA is far better; but to be fair, NASA's team is a lot more "international" than the UKSA.